1. We will watch a clip from the movie Saving Private Ryan. As we watch, write down what you see and your reactions, questions, and comments.
June 6, 1944
took place in France
they already been to africa and Italy to fight
Americans vs. Germans
The Americans invaded France to fight the Germans
2. What historical event was the video clip depicting?
D-Day was what was going on in the video
it requiered extensive planning
German-occupied France (France is occupied by Germans; Germans tried to liberate France)
3. Use the link below to read up on D-Day and take 2-column notes as you read. D-Day occurred in the middle of WWII, so we are starting with it to try to put together the puzzle of what had happened before it. Make sure you have the link in your notes.
156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches
largest amphibious(from ship to land) invasion military assualts in history
General Dwight Eisenhower was commander of operation overlord
they were supposed to have the invasion June 5th of 1944 but due to the weather delay they couldnt
by dawn on June 6th they were all ready to invade
TEXTBOOK page 772
American forces fought in North Africa- Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt - for their first action of WWII(1942-1943). America was joining the fight to help recapture these countries from German/Axis control. Next stop was Italy. Then onto France - D-Day/Battle of Normandy(1944)(Saving Private Ryan)
Chapter 24 overview:
on April 30th, Hitler commits suicide in Berlin
on August 15th, Japanese surrender after bombing Hiroshoma & Nagasaki
from 1941 & 1942, German General Erwin Rommel's forces foght back to back for control of North Africa
The invasion of France became known as Operation Overlord- they wanted to end the war as quickly as possible
B. Overview of America's involvement in WWII
1. We will watch a segment from America: The Story of Us that deals with many details of America's involvement in WWII. As we watch, try to take notes on the main ideas that you hear and see.
after 3- 4 days after the pearl harbor suprise attack in hawaii
after that U.S. joined the War
December 7th, 1941
the women were much invloved with the war , they worked in the factories-- major help with winning the war
Jeeps and other weapons were made
WWII would cost $300 billion
when bombing they try to target factories and war supplies, some people would die especially in the factories
The Army was segregated
both France and Germany were in ruins after WWII
Americans were the first to use the nuclear weapons to help win the war
U.S. uses 2 atomic bombs on Japan and Japan then surrenders
after WWII America is the worlds super power
50 million babies in 5 years-- Baby Boom--people born 1945-1960
1950s-peace and prosperity
C. Background to WWII and the start of the war in Europe.
1. Below is some background info and an intro to the start of WWII, adapted from History.com's WWII page. Please copy and paste it into your notebook. As you read it, use bolding and underlining to mark it up. After reading it, create a bubble outline of the background to and start of the war.
The instability created in Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the stage for another international conflict–World War II–which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Italy had come under the control of a dictator named Benito Mussolini and Japan was being led by a military General Hideki Tojo. Hitler came to power in 1933 and in the mid-1930s set the world on a course to war. Hitler began by taking complete control of Germany as a dictator and leading the German people to start targeting Jews on a quest to create a pure German race. He then violated World War I's Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding the German military and beginning to take back land Germany had lost from the Versailles treaty - Germany took part of Austria in 1938 and Czechoslovakia early in 1939. While Hitler took these actions America was more focused on domestic issues and both Great Britain and France were trying to avoid another war, so they used a policy called Appeasement, which means giving in to the demands of an aggressor, letting Hitler get away with what he was doing.
Hitler was able to gain momentum and his invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, and World War II had begun. Before Hitler could be slowed, Germany, Italy, and Japan had taken over much of Europe and Asia: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Libya, part of China, The Philippines, and more (take a look at the map below).
WWII pitted the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) against the Allied Powers (Great Britain and France, followed by the Soviet Union and the U.S.). Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war. An estimated 45-60 million people were killed during WWII. Included were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler's diabolical "Final Solution," now known as the Holocaust.America did not declare war until December of 1941, after being bombed by Japan at Pearl Harbor navy base in Hawaii. From 1937 to 1941, America had been supplying the Allied Powers with war supplies, but fully joined the war in 1942, fighting Germany and Italy in North Africa and Italy and fighting Japan in the islands and waters of the Pacific Ocean.
***After having read this intro/overview, don't forget to create your bubbl.us outline!
Red = Axis Control
Red = Axis Control
D. Key Terms so far
1.Treaty of Versailles
Ended World War I and Hitler and the Axis powers were violating it
2. Dictator
a person that has complete power
3. Totalitarian
govt with total power; a group of people that control the govt
4. Fascism
system where the country is the first priority, everything is focused one the glory of the state
Germany and Italy were Fascist Dictatorships
5. Appeasement
to satisfy; peace; calm
letting someone get away with what they are doing, so that there were no conflicts
6. Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo
Leaders of the Axis Powers
Hitler--> dictator of Germany who targeted Jewish people
Mussolini--> Dictator of Italy
Tojo--> led Japan
7. Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan
8. Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed pearl harbor
suprise attack towards the U.S.
9. Allied Powers
Great Britain, France, the U.S., and other countries including the Soviet Union
10. D-Day
France invasion, june 6th, 1944; the Allied invaded France because it was controlled by Germany
11. Dwight Eisenhower
General Dwight Eisenhower was commander of operation overlord/ D-Day
F. Pearl Harbor attacked by the Japanese
1. What is Pearl Harbor? Where is it? When was it attacked?
Pearl Harbor is a navy base, in Hawaii. It was attacked December 7th, 1941
i think that the U.S should have been more prepared because it was in the newspapers saying that Japan might strike. They were aware of this, but chose not to do anything about it.
G. American Forces in WWII - The Home Front, Mobilization & Impact
Read the information below.
For each bullet in #1 & #2 below, find an image that applies and put it into your notebook and use the bullet as the caption.
For every key term that is underlined, define it in your notebook (in your own words).
1. After declaring war, the American public and military had to prepare to fight:
•16 million Americans entered the armed forces, some volunteer, some by draft, which President Roosevelt had reinstated in 1940.
•Although not allowed to take part in combat, hundreds of thousands of women joined the military in various roles, including as pilots, engineers, nurses, secretaries, and equipment managers.
•New military bases were created in America, especially in California, Florida, and Texas.
•Many thousands of German, Italian, and Japanese prisoners of war were rounded up (more on this later).
•Industry was mobilized by converting factories to the production of war supplies, especially for making guns, bullets, planes, and tanks:
•The government created new agencies to make sure the home front effort ran smoothly. These agencies regulated factory production, set prices, and determined how raw materials, like rubber and oil, would be used.
•Women in the workforce increased dramatically, just like during WWI, with 6.5 million new women joining the working world, most of them in factories, helping do the difficult industrial jobs. These women became symbolized by one name:
•Science became a focus as the top-secret Manhattan Project set up shop in New Mexico to work on developing nuclear weapons, especially the Atomic Bomb, the most powerful weapon ever developed up to that time. This project was led by scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The development of the a-bomb would soon change the world forever.
2. While government spending on the war provided millions of jobs and ended the Great Depression, some issues still remained:
•Many workers still worked under very difficult working conditions and unions struggled to improve those conditions.
•Women were mostly paid less than men for doing the same jobs.
•African-Americans still had to serve in segregated military units and faced discrimination in the armed forces.
•African-Americans still faced discrimination on the job market. While many black Americans got jobs during World War II, many were still passed over for white men or women. Black union leader A. Philip Randolph threated to lead a march on Washington, D.C. to protest these facts, but President Roosevelt responded by outlawing racial discrimination in hiring for government or military jobs, so Randolph called off his plans.
•Many Hispanic Americans found jobs in America, especially on farms in the west (especially in California), but were often met with racial discrimination and unwelcomed in their new communities.
•Millions of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans served in the American armed forces throughout WWII, contributing greatly to the war effort.
Key Terms:
Mobilized--> Assembled; organize; preparation of army
The office of production management--> controlling the activities to make a product
The war production board--> Agency established in 1942,it supervised production and sale of material for WWII
Rosie the Riveter--> an icon who represented women who worked in WWII;propaganda campaigns used to make women work in the war
Manhattan project--> resaerch to deveoping the atomic bomb/ nuclear weapons
J. Robert Oppenheimer--> a physics professor who worked on the Manhattan project to help make the first nuclear weapons
A. Philip Randolph--> African American civil rights movement; he fought for against segregation
G3. Military impact: Operations
2-Front War - aka Two Theater War
In WWII, the U.S. was fighting in Europe and the Pacific
Operation Torch - N Africa & Italy
The first fighting in WWII for American forces was in the North Africa and then Italy
Operation Overlord - D-Day & Normandy
Invasion of France to retake it from German control-led by the U.S. an General Eisenhower
Battle of the Bulge
As the Germans were getting close to defeat, they launched one big last offensive. it was temporary successful, but they couldn't fight off the Allies for long
Ending the Holocaust
As the Americans came from the west and the Soviets from the east, the Germans were defeated and all the concentration camps were discovered. Any prisoners left were freed.
Slow start in the Pacific
The first few battles in the Pacific theater were won by Japan, America was struggling on that front. America even lost control of the Phillipines to the Japanese
Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo
The bombing of Japan helps turn things around. April 1942.
Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa - ISLAND HOPPING in the PACIFIC - see map:
American forces win a number of battles in the Pacific- mostly air and sea battles-against Japan, going from Island to island. americans recaptured the Phillipines, starting with the battle of Leyte Gulf, and then fought on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, getting very close to Japan's mainland (spring of 1945).
WWIIin the Pacific Theater
Americans raising their flag after capturing Iwo Jima from Japan (1945)
Code Talkers---> Navajo Native Americans in the U.S. Marines who used their language to relay important messages that the Japanese couldn't decode
Kamikazes--->Japanese Suicide bomber pilots that flew their planes in to American ships during WWII
G3 continued...The End of the War:
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day
May 7th, Hitleras death agreed to a surrender
May 8th 1945 the day the Allies celebrated their victory
Japan's refusal to surrender
Even though The U.S. was destroying more and more of Japan, they still refused to surrender, which was bad for them because more severe damage would happen to their country
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
when the American B-29, Enola Gay ( atomic bomb), hit the city of Hiroshima, the bomb exploded and the heavy damages extended 3 miles and the lighter ones 12 miles.
since the Japanese show no sign of surrender, the U.S. dropped another bomb on Nagasaki on August 9th. and they still did not end the war.
What is your opinion of the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan? Read up using the info and sites below, then write a paragraph explaining the debate and your opinion:
President Truman - radio address - August 1945:
"I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb. Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this government. But, we knew that our enemies were on the search for it. We know now how close they were to finding it. And we know the disaster which would come to this nation, and to all peaceful nations, to all civilizations, if they had found it first.
That is why we felt compelled to undertake the long and uncertain and costly labor of discovery and production. We won the race of discovery against the Germans.
Having found the bomb, we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned the pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.
We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us."
I didn't think it was really that necesary for the U.S. to drop the atomic bombs on Japan, but they asked for it because even though their country was getting severely destroyed they still didnt want to surrender. They were making things even worse. The U.S. thought that by using the atomic bombs that Japan would eventually have to give up, knowing that they were losing a lot. The U.S. did what they had to do to get the job done. Japan still wasn't surrendering until the emperor hirohito announced that the war was ending, which meant they finaly surrendered. I think that Japan took it too far.
Atomic bomb on Nagasaki
President Truman, he ordered the U.S. to drop the atomic bombs on Japan
V-J Day
August 15th, Hirohito(emperor) annouced the end of the war over the radio.
some people tried to go against the Japanese gov't to continue, but failed
President video:
Democrat, 1945-1953
three months while he was vice president, FDR died
he had two choices, to invade Japan or drop the atomic bombs; he decided to drop the bomb- another was dropped the day after the first one hit Japan
The Cold war, the U.S. against Soviet Union
He ended segregation in the military in1948
1949- China communist revolution
1950-1953 Korean War
The Home Front Continues..
G4. Home Front Issues: A few other very important aspects of America during WWII. Define each AND give your opinion on each. HomeFront---->the people that were left behind that didnt go to war, they gave it the name to peoples everyday life
Rationing--->
the people were only allowed to buy small amount of the things they needed because they were short on war supplies; made sure everyone had a fair share/ration;the government introduced rationing(i.e. gasoline,butter, coffee, meat)
Paying for the war--->
the gov't raised taxes, borrowed money from American people through war bonds, and borrowed money from foreign countries
The Office of War Information (see propaganda below)
they were the people to put out all of the propaganda, info to influence people, also to make the American people fear what the outcomes may be
Executive Order 9066
The goal was to remove people of the Japanese background from the west coast of the U.S.
Feb. 1942, 2 months after Pearl Harbor
gave armed forces to create military zones and power to force other to leave the zones
Internment---> forced people to relocate and go into camps
similar to the Holocaust, but no killing involved
Fred Korematsu fought against the executive order 9066
Japanese Internment Timeline notes:
within 48hrs after Pearl Habor, 1291 Japanese(Americans) were in custody under no charge.
2 months later FDR sings the Executive Order 9066
one month after he signs Executive Order 9102, WRA( War Relocation Authority) took $5.5mil
families were given 1 week to prepare for the first civilian exlusion order and then they would be imprisoned and confined
WRA didn't cosider the camps as concentration camps
They do not want any Japanese people in the coast at all becasue they don't know what their intentions are
The supreme court did not care for people who tried to fight against internment, i.e. Fred Korematsu
if Japanese wanted to return they had to do screenings
May 7th, 1945 the war ended with the surrender of Germany
Propaganda
-->Information meant to influence people i.e.--> movie trailors, gov;t posters, fliers, commercial, etc
WWII:
Background and start of war in Europe(1939 -1930s
Steps to the U.S. involvement in WWII (1930s-->Dec. 7th, 1941(Pearl Harbor))
fighting of the war 1939-1945 (G3)
American Home Front during WWII (G1,G2+G4)
Diplomacy + Outcomes (H+I)
H. Diplomacy at the end of WWII
Diplomacy--> negotiations between/among countries---> occurs at United Nations Diplomat--> a person who reps a country (i.e. Secretary of state)
Yalta Conference
When: In Feb. 1945 (war almost over)
Where: In the city of Yalta, in the Soviet Union
Who: Allied leaders - FDR(U.S.), Winston Churchill(England), and Joseph Stalin(Soviet union)
Why: The Yalta conference was a meeting to make plans for post-war and peace, key goal was to discuss what to do with Germany and many other nations that had been under Axis control during the war
What happened:
they divided Germany and its capital city(Berlin) into 4 sectors, The Americans, Soviets, British, and French and each would occupy the sectors, with the Soviets having the largest zone since it had the largest army
Germany would not be punished this time
Stalin promised to help run elections in Poland and other countries in need of new gov'ts (but he did not keep his promise)
Stalin promised that after Germany was defeated he would help the U.S. defeat Japan if they could not do so within 3 months
Germany defeated on May 8, 1945...U.S. drops a bomb on Hiroshima August 6, 1945... Soviet Union declares war on Japan on August8, 1945...U.S. drops bomb on Nagasaki on august 9, 1945... Japan surrenders on August 15, 1945
FDR's death--Truman takes over as President, new leader for the U.S. at a very tough time
April 12, 1945
April 12, 1945
United Nations---> created in June 1945- purpose: keep peace
Potsdam Conference-
meeting in July of 1945 in Potsdam Germany after Germany's defeat
Unsuccessful b/c Stalin no longer planning on holding elections in Poland and other European countries
Growing American fear of the spread of Soviet communism
I. Outcomes and Effects of WWII...including seeds of the Cold War
1.Allies oversee countries' rebuilding(ex. the U.S. greatly influenced the new japanese constitution)
2. The United Nations was created and still exists today (192 member nations)
3. The world entered the age of nuclear weapons (nuclear proliferation)
4.The government spending and jobs created by WWII ended the Great Depression
5.The American military remained extremely large and only grew, as did America's military presence around the world
6. Death toll - see chart below - which countries suffered the most from WWII?
there were barely no asian countries that was affected by the Holocaust
Poland had the highest percentage of deaths
The Soviet Union suffered the most, since they had basically the most deaths
the U.S. had the least de\ath percentage
7.The start of the Cold War - the U.S. vs. the S.U.
What the ten most important key terms to know about American involvement in WWII?
Pearl Harbor- after attack it led America to join war
Dictatorship- one of the reasons the war started, Hitler
Propaganda- influenced people to join war
D-day- Allies invaded on France because it was Germany occupied
Home Front- Poeple who were affected back home because of the war
Rationing- limited peoples purchases so they would have enough to provide for the war
Yalta conference- meeting to make peace post-war
Internment- Japanese people were forced to leave the west coast and move into camps
Diplomacy- negotiations between or among countries
Mobilization- preparation for the war and how they would reach there destinations
General War-Related terms
*Home Front
*Propaganda
*Diplomacy
Rationing
Dictator
Apeasment
*Mobilization
Front/theater
L. WWII Essay Work: Thesis Statements
thesis statement- shows topic, restates the question, sets up arguement, and usually 1-2 sentences, should include specifics, compound sewntence
Q: How was your weekend?
Thesis statement: People especially children love the weekend because there is no school, but weekends are usually not as fun as it may seem.
Q: Which is the best fast food restaurant?
Thesis statement:
Test Review:
Chapter 23- WWII Erupts opening page
the Treaty of Versailles created conflict instead of peace,Great Britain and France avoided conflict Germany, Japan, and Italy were led by dictators
page 736 S1:
The Rise of Dictators- the Treaty of Versailles failed and dictators took control of Germany, Japan, and Italy
S2:
Europe Eurpts in War-Germany was not statisfied and it led to start WWII
S3:
The United States Enter the War- The Axis aggression destroyed the isolationism of the U.S. and brought them into war
S4:
Mobilization for War- Once the war started it was necessary for the U.S. military to go mobile
Chapter 24-The United States in WWII opening page
Although the U.S. military and the Allies defeated the Axis powers, the victory was costly
WWII Interactive Map & Timeline - EXPLORE
==A. Introduction
1. We will watch a clip from the movie Saving Private Ryan. As we watch, write down what you see and your reactions, questions, and comments.
2. What historical event was the video clip depicting?
3. Use the link below to read up on D-Day and take 2-column notes as you read. D-Day occurred in the middle of WWII, so we are starting with it to try to put together the puzzle of what had happened before it. Make sure you have the link in your notes.
D-Day site - History.com
TEXTBOOK page 772
American forces fought in North Africa- Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt - for their first action of WWII(1942-1943). America was joining the fight to help recapture these countries from German/Axis control.Next stop was Italy. Then onto France - D-Day/Battle of Normandy(1944)(Saving Private Ryan)
Chapter 24 overview:
B. Overview of America's involvement in WWII
1. We will watch a segment from America: The Story of Us that deals with many details of America's involvement in WWII. As we watch, try to take notes on the main ideas that you hear and see.
C. Background to WWII and the start of the war in Europe.
1. Below is some background info and an intro to the start of WWII, adapted from History.com's WWII page. Please copy and paste it into your notebook. As you read it, use bolding and underlining to mark it up. After reading it, create a bubble outline of the background to and start of the war.
The instability created in Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the stage for another international conflict–World War II–which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Italy had come under the control of a dictator named Benito Mussolini and Japan was being led by a military General Hideki Tojo. Hitler came to power in 1933 and in the mid-1930s set the world on a course to war. Hitler began by taking complete control of Germany as a dictator and leading the German people to start targeting Jews on a quest to create a pure German race. He then violated World War I's Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding the German military and beginning to take back land Germany had lost from the Versailles treaty - Germany took part of Austria in 1938 and Czechoslovakia early in 1939. While Hitler took these actions America was more focused on domestic issues and both Great Britain and France were trying to avoid another war, so they used a policy called Appeasement, which means giving in to the demands of an aggressor, letting Hitler get away with what he was doing.
Hitler was able to gain momentum and his invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, and World War II had begun. Before Hitler could be slowed, Germany, Italy, and Japan had taken over much of Europe and Asia: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Libya, part of China, The Philippines, and more (take a look at the map below).
WWII pitted the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) against the Allied Powers (Great Britain and France, followed by the Soviet Union and the U.S.). Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war. An estimated 45-60 million people were killed during WWII. Included were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler's diabolical "Final Solution," now known as the Holocaust. America did not declare war until December of 1941, after being bombed by Japan at Pearl Harbor navy base in Hawaii. From 1937 to 1941, America had been supplying the Allied Powers with war supplies, but fully joined the war in 1942, fighting Germany and Italy in North Africa and Italy and fighting Japan in the islands and waters of the Pacific Ocean.
***After having read this intro/overview, don't forget to create your bubbl.us outline!
D. Key Terms so far
1.Treaty of Versailles
2. Dictator
3. Totalitarian
4. Fascism
5. Appeasement
6. Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo
7. Axis Powers
8. Pearl Harbor
9. Allied Powers
10. D-Day
11. Dwight Eisenhower
F. Pearl Harbor attacked by the Japanese
1. What is Pearl Harbor? Where is it? When was it attacked?
2. Watch: Pearl Harbor Video interactive simulation from MSNBC
Answer: What were the key details of the attack?
3. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
Why?4. Should the U.S. have been more prepared?
5. What was the U.S. response?
Read:Pearl Harbor site from History.com
Watch: Video - Pearl Harbor, FDR speech, A-Bombs - pay special attention to FDR's speech
Check out the posters below, what do they tell us about America's response to Pearl Harbor?:
G. American Forces in WWII - The Home Front, Mobilization & Impact
Read the information below.
For each bullet in #1 & #2 below, find an image that applies and put it into your notebook and use the bullet as the caption.
For every key term that is underlined, define it in your notebook (in your own words).
1. After declaring war, the American public and military had to prepare to fight:
2. While government spending on the war provided millions of jobs and ended the Great Depression, some issues still remained:
Key Terms:
G3. Military impact: Operations
2-Front War - aka Two Theater War
Operation Torch - N Africa & Italy
Operation Overlord - D-Day & Normandy
Battle of the Bulge
Ending the Holocaust
Slow start in the Pacific
Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo
Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa - ISLAND HOPPING in the PACIFIC - see map:
Code Talkers---> Navajo Native Americans in the U.S. Marines who used their language to relay important messages that the Japanese couldn't decode
Kamikazes--->Japanese Suicide bomber pilots that flew their planes in to American ships during WWII
G3 continued...The End of the War:
- Even though The U.S. was destroying more and more of Japan, they still refused to surrender, which was bad for them because more severe damage would happen to their country
- when the American B-29, Enola Gay ( atomic bomb), hit the city of Hiroshima, the bomb exploded and the heavy damages extended 3 miles and the lighter ones 12 miles.
- since the Japanese show no sign of surrender, the U.S. dropped another bomb on Nagasaki on August 9th. and they still did not end the war.
- What is your opinion of the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan? Read up using the info and sites below, then write a paragraph explaining the debate and your opinion:
Decision to Invade Japan or use the atomic bombs.Japan's refusal to surrender
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Diary of President Truman"I have to decide Japanese strategy -- shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts." June 17, 1945
President Truman - radio address - August 1945:
"I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb. Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this government. But, we knew that our enemies were on the search for it. We know now how close they were to finding it. And we know the disaster which would come to this nation, and to all peaceful nations, to all civilizations, if they had found it first.
That is why we felt compelled to undertake the long and uncertain and costly labor of discovery and production. We won the race of discovery against the Germans.
Having found the bomb, we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned the pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.
We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us."
- I didn't think it was really that necesary for the U.S. to drop the atomic bombs on Japan, but they asked for it because even though their country was getting severely destroyed they still didnt want to surrender. They were making things even worse. The U.S. thought that by using the atomic bombs that Japan would eventually have to give up, knowing that they were losing a lot. The U.S. did what they had to do to get the job done. Japan still wasn't surrendering until the emperor hirohito announced that the war was ending, which meant they finaly surrendered. I think that Japan took it too far.
- V-J Day
- August 15th, Hirohito(emperor) annouced the end of the war over the radio.
- some people tried to go against the Japanese gov't to continue, but failed
President video:The Home Front Continues..
G4. Home Front Issues: A few other very important aspects of America during WWII. Define each AND give your opinion on each.HomeFront---->the people that were left behind that didnt go to war, they gave it the name to peoples everyday life
Propaganda
-->Information meant to influence peoplei.e.--> movie trailors, gov;t posters, fliers, commercial, etc
WWII:
H. Diplomacy at the end of WWII
Diplomacy--> negotiations between/among countries---> occurs at United NationsDiplomat--> a person who reps a country (i.e. Secretary of state)
United Nations---> created in June 1945- purpose: keep peace
Potsdam Conference-
I. Outcomes and Effects of WWII...including seeds of the Cold War
1.Allies oversee countries' rebuilding(ex. the U.S. greatly influenced the new japanese constitution)
2. The United Nations was created and still exists today (192 member nations)
3. The world entered the age of nuclear weapons (nuclear proliferation)
4.The government spending and jobs created by WWII ended the Great Depression
5.The American military remained extremely large and only grew, as did America's military presence around the world
6. Death toll - see chart below - which countries suffered the most from WWII?
- there were barely no asian countries that was affected by the Holocaust
- Poland had the highest percentage of deaths
- The Soviet Union suffered the most, since they had basically the most deaths
- the U.S. had the least de\ath percentage
7.The start of the Cold War - the U.S. vs. the S.U.in the Holocaust
Deaths
J. wordle on WWII:
5 important Key terms:
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3.
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K. WWII Top Ten KTs
What the ten most important key terms to know about American involvement in WWII?General War-Related terms
L. WWII Essay Work: Thesis Statements
thesis statement- shows topic, restates the question, sets up arguement, and usually 1-2 sentences, should include specifics, compound sewntence
Q: How was your weekend?Thesis statement: People especially children love the weekend because there is no school, but weekends are usually not as fun as it may seem.
Q: Which is the best fast food restaurant?
Thesis statement:
Test Review:
Chapter 23- WWII Eruptsopening page
- the Treaty of Versailles created conflict instead of peace,Great Britain and France avoided conflict Germany, Japan, and Italy were led by dictators
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- Europe Eurpts in War-Germany was not statisfied and it led to start WWII
S3:- The United States Enter the War- The Axis aggression destroyed the isolationism of the U.S. and brought them into war
S4:Chapter 24-The United States in WWII
opening page
- Although the U.S. military and the Allies defeated the Axis powers, the victory was costly
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- The Holocaust-
S3:- The war in the Pacific-
S4:- The Home front -
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